James "Jimmy" Chance is fictional character

Fictional character

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 on Raising Hope

Raising Hope

Raising Hope is a television comedy program first aired on September 21, 2010 on Fox. The series airs on Tuesdays at 9:30 pm. On January 10, 2011, Fox renewed Raising Hope for a second season, which premiered on September 20, 2011....

. He is played by Lucas Neff

Lucas Neff

Lucas Neff is an American actor from Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for his work in the role of James "Jimmy" Chance in the sitcom Raising Hope....

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Jimmy is a 23-year-old who is clueless about raising a child and everything else. One night when he was driving back to his home after picking up bubblegum

Bubblegum

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 ice cream

Ice cream

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, a girl named Lucy jumped into his van while he was at a stop light. She told him to drive since a man was chasing after her. Once they got back to the drive way at his house, she told him he was her hero and the two had sex. The next morning however, Jimmy and his family learned that she was a wanted murderer, and Jimmy's mother, Virginia, knocked her out with a mini TV set and they turned her in to the police

Police

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. Eight months later, he was contacted and learned she had become pregnant with his daughter, Hope (originally Princess Beyonce).

Relatives

• Hope Chance: Jimmy's daughter. She is six months old at the beginning of the show and lives with her father, grandmother, grandfather, and great-great grandmother.
• Virginia Chance
  Virginia Chance
  Virginia Chance is a fictional character on Raising Hope played by Martha Plimpton.Virginia is Hope's grandmother, Jimmy's mother, and Burt's wife. Virginia conceived Jimmy when she was fifteen...
  
  : Jimmy's mother. She was fifteen when she conceived him, making her a grandmother at the age of 40.
• Burt Chance
  Burt Chance
  Burt Chance is a fictional character on Raising Hope played by Garret Dillahunt.Burt is Hope's grandfather, Jimmy's father, and Virginia's husband. Burt conceived Jimmy with Virginia when he was seventeen. He has a gardening business which he runs with Jimmy.Burt has been seen in several episodes...
  
  : Jimmy's father. He was seventeen when he fathered Jimmy and was a grandfather by the age of 42.
• Maw Maw
  Maw Maw
  Barbara June Thompson, always referred to by her family as "Maw Maw," is a fictional character in the television comedy Raising Hope. The character is played by Cloris Leachman....
  
  : Jimmy's great-grandmother, Virginia's grandmother. Maw Maw is 85 years old, as was stated in the first season finale.
• Delilah: Virginia's cousin.
• Bruce Chance: Jimmy's uncle, Burt's brother.
• Mike Chance: Jimmy's cousin.
• Louise Thompson: Jimmy's grandmother, Virginia's mother.
• Wilfred Thompson: Jimmy's great-grandfather, Virginia's grandfather.